It is great to be back in our house! Though the adventure continues. It seems that the work on the drainage system that had begun and not completed before the flood is now being worked on in earnest. This has made leaving our area interesting, with some parts we drive on a few feet wide. Of course that's what makes it fun. It is messy though. Across from our house is a huge pile of rubble. Here is Brittany standing in front of it.

Ann and I did have a somewhat scary Vietnam moment. When there is heavy equipment being used, there is no roping off or fencing in an area. A backhoe had been brought in to dig more of the trench for the drainage and it was taking up the whole alley way. If we wanted to get home, we needed to get past the backhoe. There was a foot or two to spare to go by with the motorcycle. Kind of scary. This is the trench with the new drainage system. They built it up with bricks and then put cement over the bricks. Then capped it with concrete blocks.

After the flood, our landlord came over and agreed that our kitchen cabinets need to be moved out to investigate why water was gushing out from under the cabinets during the storm. I guess we had 17 inches in 18 hours and 25 inches for the weekend. Hopefully this week our landlord will come with the workers to do that. They will dig down to the foundation, where we think there must be a large crack to have let in so much water.

This storm, the largest in 35 years for Hanoi, happened during the dry season. We are thankful everything is back to normal in the city.